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2008-06-13 Home Front Economy

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Posted by tu3031 2008-06-13 13:48|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 It will be interesting for the European companies to be subject to American financial transparency laws. I imagine there will be lots of bribery cases brought in the next decade.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-13 14:51|| 2008-06-13 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't we have all this 'foreigners' taking over in the last dollar dump go around but with the Japanese? Crisis, crisis [time to sell more tv time and page columns by generating the next 'crisis'(tm) and throw a little xenophobia in for the gun hugging, bible totting, rednecks as well]. Only two nations capitalized their own development, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Everyone else leveraged foreign investment. It is not only the low dollar that makes the buying enticing, but the low productivity of investing the money back home [Europe] or the long term security of existing property and corporate laws [as lacking in China]. I say welcome. And get to ~~bribe~~ know the state legislators who will make your stay inviting or interesting.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-13 15:52|| 2008-06-13 15:52|| Front Page Top

#3 agree Procopius2k. It is a multi-edge sword. The real estate is cheap now and paying the labor costs and travel are great while the dollar is low. But to everything a season. When the dollar goes up - so do the labor costs, shipping costs, material costs and salaries.

The dollar will always go up and down and so do these crisis. One man's ceiling....

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-06-13 16:26|| 2008-06-13 16:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The side benefit if you are a Euro businessman is you can eventually move your headquarters state-side if Eurabia gets too bad.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-06-13 18:04|| 2008-06-13 18:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Procopius, I was just going to mention the last go-round with Japan. For awhile there people were afraid that Japan was going to own the whole country or so it seemed.

Naturally, it never happened. The Japanese econom tanked (as Europe's is doing) and ours bounced back (as we will again). When that happens a lot of the investments made by the Euroweanies will be bought back by American investors.

The real threat we have to watch out for is people like Soros who's only desire seems to be driving the American dollar down and tanking the US economy - with no apparent thought whatsoever in the fact that the world's economy follows whatever the US economy does.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-06-13 18:23|| fots.cdgroup.org]">[fots.cdgroup.org] 2008-06-13 18:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Foreign investment in the US is booming. So are US exports.

People point to high oil prices, real estate problems, etc. in order to forecast a recession; but the recession seems rather late in coming, and may not come at all. I think they are missing these other factors moving the other direction.

Posted by buwaya 2008-06-13 18:51|| 2008-06-13 18:51|| Front Page Top

#7 "The side benefit if you are a Euro businessman is you can eventually move your headquarters state-side if Eurabia gets too bad"

Also true. The US is the ultimate "safe haven" for capital flight - if push comes to shove in any sense whatever, eventually, this will be the last place standing if any is. Its cheap to do so now. Get in while the gettings good.

Posted by buwaya 2008-06-13 18:55|| 2008-06-13 18:55|| Front Page Top

#8 NO surprise here . as argued times before, WOT > AMERICA TAKES OVER THE WORLD versus WORLD TAKES OVER AMERICA. among other premises.

Espec now wid IRAN + RADICAL ISLAM "GOING FOR BROKE" IN CENTRAL ASIA, etc. VV PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION + STRATEGIC WEAPONIZATION, FOR POST-2010 OR 2012 RESURGENT JIHAD-TERR [Nuklar].

VLAD PUTIN make like the idea of A "MULTIPOLAR" WORLD, but OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAMISM THINK OTHERWISE TO SAVE THEIR JIHAD.

JIHAD > OSAMA + ISLAMISTS > BIPOLAR = US-ALLIES versus NUCLEAR ISLAMIST CENTRAL ASIA/ISLAMIST ASIA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-13 19:58|| 2008-06-13 19:58|| Front Page Top

#9 FYI, CHINESE MIL FORUM Poster > claims that many citizens of EUROPE, which he refers to as the "EUROZONE" in anti-OWG OWG-speak, are moving from said Eurozone and settling in THAILAND???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-13 21:53|| 2008-06-13 21:53|| Front Page Top

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